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200 Canon Tips - Portraits

Capture people shots full of flair and personality with a combination of technical and interpersonal skills

200 Canon Tips - Action

Squeeze every last ounce of performance out of your camera, and immortalise action-packed moments

MASTER RAW!

Transform your captures with just 10 essential edits using Adobe Photoshop CC’s Camera Raw. Dan Mold shows you how to finesse your skills

Supercharge your skills

Mike Harris provides easy-to-implement tips that will help to improve your photography for 2023

Shirlaine Forrest

Whether shooting rock gigs, fashion models or the high-speed track sport of roller derby, Shirlaine Forrest is one of the busiest photographers you will ever meet. She pauses just long enough to tell Keith Wilson why she always carries a bag of sweets and how Bob the Builder fixed it for her

Photoshop learn essential editing skills fast! - HOW TO...EXPERIMENT IN THE LAB

James Paterson shows you how to use Photoshop's powerful Lab colour mode to boost your images realistically, or completely alter colours

MASTER METERING MODES

Mike Harris encourages you to learn all your camera's metering modes so that you can nail exposure fast in any conditions

Create stunning mono images

Jon Adams shows how to use your gift to craft classic B&W finishes

Make a mini movie scene

Mike Harris uses a macro lens and LED lights to capture a film-like image of a tiny action figure

Sphere of the dark

Mike Harris shows you how to add multiple orbs of light to your images with this light-painting technique

EERIE IMAGE CAPTURES PLANT DINING OUT ON SALAMANDERS

Close-up Photographer of the Year announces the winners of its latest contest

GEAR OF THE YEAR

We're kicking off 2023 with a look back at the most exciting and most innovative photography kit we tested and used in 2022

Picture books

Melinda McIntyre travels beyond the confines of photography to create mixed-media images that tell stories full of emotion and meaning

WHAT'S HOT THE WEEK'S TOP HEADLINES IN PHOTOGRAPHY DJI LAUNCHES MINI GIMBAL FOR MIRRORLESS CAMERAS

New DJI RS 3 Mini is a compact option designed for travel and vlogging

The long and short of it

James Paterson shoots better blur by shutter-blending to combine longer and shorter exposures in a single frame

Shoot for the moon

Photographer and Apollo missions obsessive Andy Saunders carefully restored thousands of film frames for his Apollo Remastered project

Lens test Expert opinion on the latest kit - TAMRON 17-70MM F/2.8 DI III-A VC RXD

A versatile lens with a fast and constant aperture

GuruShots

We've joined up with online photo game GuruShots to print the winning images from the Water World challenge

Portraits with character!

Our apprentice learns the art of character portraiture, shooting professional soldiers

10 ways phones can help your photography

Phones can boost the creativity and quality of your photography with a conventional camera, as Kingsley Singleton reveals

Lumix S 14-28mm F4-5.6 Macro

A NEW lens will also be gracing Panasonic’s line-up in 2023. The Lumix S 14-28mm F4-5.6 Macro is a small, lightweight ultra-wideangle zoom that joins the same relatively affordable range as the Lumix S 20-60mm F3.5-5.6 and 70-300mm F4.5-5.6 Macro OIS optics.

Six hidden camera power features

The average modern camera has such a wealth of features that it’s easy to miss a few. Angela Nicholson reveals six notable ones that can really help

Take back control of white balance

Auto white balance may end up fixing things that aren’t broken, and adusting later in raw is not always a panacea, as Rod Lawton explains

Video specialist S5IIX on its way

PANASONIC has revealed that it’s also making a more video-centric variant, the Lumix S5IIX.

Remembering a fine contributor

WE’RE very sad to report the death of a highly respected contributor to AP, Jamie Harrison.

Custom classics

Inside every digital camera is a treasure chest of customisation tools that can make a big difference. Will Cheung helps you select which ones are worth using, with case studies

Pre-capture bursts explained

Of course it’s not magic, but it still feels like it. Rod Lawton explains how cameras can start shooting before you press the button

Getting the bigger picture

Several cameras now let you capture images that are larger than the pixel dimensions of their sensor. Angela Nicholson explains how

Tim Clinch considers...

Portrait of TS Eliot At Love Beach, New Providence Island While On His Honeymoon in The Bahamas, 1957, by Slim Aarons

Remembering Marilyn Stafford

AP IS saddened to report the death of eminent photojournalist Marilyn Stafford, who passed away peacefully aged 97 at her home in Sussex on 2 January.